Travel Awards (Deadline: October 5 and February 5): For academic conference travel

Seed Research Awards (Deadline: October 5 and February 5): For conducting preliminary research needed to develop dissertation research project.

The Steve Birdsall Summer Award (Deadline in spring, TBA): This award supports summer research and living expenses of graduate students.

UNC Funding Opportunities for Graduate Students:

Summer:

Summer teaching opportunities in the UNC Summer School: Our department offers several mostly introductory level courses in Summer Term I and II. Graduate students who have a Masters degree or have completed their doctoral exams can apply to the Department for teaching a summer course.

UNC Center for Global Initiatives provides a number of summer and academic year funding opportunities for graduate students, including the Carolina Global Initiative Award, Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, Fulbright U.S. Student Program, Fulbright-Hayes Doctoral Dissertation Abroad, and Pre-Dissertation Exploration Award.

The Institute for the Study of the Americas offers several funding opportunities for graduate students whose research focuses on Latin America, including Pre-Dissertation Summer Field Research Summer Grants (Tinker Field Research).

Various awards and small grants are offered through the American Association of Geographers (AAG) and AAG specialty groups (Cultural Geography, Energy and Environment, Political Ecology, European Geography, etc.).